Dennis Raphael
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Dennis Raphael
@dennisraphael.bsky.social

Canadian, university professor, Bertolt Brecht admirer, Raptors fan, potato cannon engineer, South Riverdale enthusiast/resident, socialist since grade 6. More info about me here: https://discover.academics.yorku.ca/Dennis.Raphael/about .. more

Dennis Raphael is a Canadian social scientist who has written extensively on the social inequalities in health in Canada and elsewhere.

Source: Wikipedia
Public Health 31%
Political science 22%

Tiny Tim's famous line from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is "God bless us, every one!", a heartfelt blessing he offers at Christmas dinner that symbolizes the story's themes of kindness, generosity, and hope, and reflects Scrooge's eventual transformation.

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The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another.

Substitute NDP for the Government in this Brecht poem.

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Absolutely disgusted with the NDP bureaucracy: NDP rejects Yves Engler as leadership candidate /via www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
NDP rejects Yves Engler as leadership candidate
The party cited concerns about intimidation of politicians and echoing of Russian state propaganda, which Mr. Engler disputes
www.theglobeandmail.com

You who will emerge from the flood
In which we have gone under
Remember
When you speak of our failings
The dark time too
Which you have escaped.

But you, when the time comes at last
And man is a helper to man
Think of us
With forbearance.

Bertolt Brecht
www.ronnowpoetry.com/contents/bre...
To Those Born Later
www.ronnowpoetry.com

What kind of times are they, when
A talk about trees is almost a crime
Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
That man there calmly crossing the street
Is already perhaps beyond the reach of his friends
Who are in need?
To Those Born Later
www.ronnowpoetry.com

Truly, I live in dark times!
The guileless word is folly. A smooth forehead
Suggests insensitivity. The man who laughs
Has simply not yet had
The terrible news.